Nemo Dark Mode?

Trisk

Everything is in dark mode except for Nemo windows (Budgie). I’m pretty sure it can go into a dark mode because I’ve seen screenshots of it that way, but for the life of me I can’t find a setting to accomplish that. Probably overlooking something obvious but please help. Thanks!

brent

Trisk this is not in Nemo's preferences which is interesting.
If in Budgie, check these 2 theme toggles are on:

If that fails I would install gnome settings from repo and force it to dark. I've done that few times when an app didn't pick up on the whole dark theme I had going on....a dev here warned me this was an unapproved /not rec'd method so use at your own risk. I haven't had to do this for a couple years.

I'm taking a wild guess you aren't using a system dark theme. I could be wrong.

Trisk

brent Thanks! I had just hunted down an answer from AI Chat (DuckDuckGo) and adapted it to Solus/Budgie:

Install gnome-tweaks from the Software Center, run, go to Appearance->Legacy Applications, choose Adwaita-dark from the dropdown menu. Done, it’s perfectly matching everything else now.

The Desktop Settings had Widgets undefined and when I did the dropdown there was no Adwaita, dark or otherwise, so now that’s a different dark style than everthing else. I had to choose Materia Dark, which was the closest match it seems.

Oh well, close enough!

Edit: whoops, everything got changed to Materia-dark, which has a darker background than Adwaita-dark , the original color. So your method would have worked, I think, at least to get everything matching. I can live with this for now.

The main issue is that I’m on an OLED laptop and having Nemo come up with a bright white background was doing a number on my eyes. That is solved now.

P.S- I can get the Adwaita-dark theme back for everything in gnome-tweaks’ Legacy Applications dropdown and have done so. I prefer the dark grey background rather than near-black. 😻

brent

Trisk wonder what the difference between gnome-tweaks and gnome-settingsis?
either way I do remember this side effect:

Trisk Edit: whoops, everything got changed to Materia-dark, which has a darker background than Adwaita-dark , the original color. So your method would have worked, I think, at least to get everything matching.